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SCHINDLER’S LIST
1993

A Film by Steven Spielberg

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
- Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5; Babylonian Talmud

Oskar Schindler Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler

CAST:
MAIN
• Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi businessman who saves the lives of over 1,100 Jews by employing them in his factory.
• Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern, Schindler's accountant and business partner.
• Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth, an SS officer assigned to build and run the Płaszów concentration camp, and is befriended by Schindler, though he grows steadily suspicious of Schindler's true aims as the film progresses. He is sadistic and psychopathic, frequently murdering his prisoners for fun.
• Embeth Davidtz as Helen Hirsch, a young Jewish woman works as Goeth's housekeeper. She is attractive in his eyes.
• Caroline Goodall as Emilie Schindler, Schindler's wife.
• Jonathan Sagall as Poldek Pfefferberg, a young man who survived with his wife and provides goods to Schindler from the black market.
Secondary
• Ezra Dagan as Rabbi Lewartow, a rabbi who acquires skills as a welder in Schindler's camp.
• Małgorzata Gebel as Wiktoria Klonowska, Schindler's mistress.
• Shmuel Levy as Wilek Chilowicz.
• Mark Ivanir as Marcel Goldberg.
• Béatrice Macola as Ingrid.
• Andrzej Seweryn as Julian Scherner.
• Friedrich von Thun as Rolf Czurda.
• Krzysztof Luft as Herman Toffel.
• Harry Nehring as Leo John.
• Norbert Weisser as Albert Hujar.
• Adi Nitzan as Mila Pfefferberg, Poldek's wife.
• Michael Schneider as Juda Dresner.
• Miri Fabian as Chaja Dresner.
• Anna Mucha as Danka Dresner.
• Albert Misak as Mordecai Wulkan.
• Hans-Michael Rehberg as Rudolf Höss
• Daniel Del Ponte as Josef Mengele, the doctor in Auschwitz

INTRODUCTION:
Schindler's List is a 1993 epic drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and scripted by Steven Zaillian. It is based

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